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网上搜的英国卫报的报道，更多细节：
It is the mysterious affair of the globe-trotting charity worker, her powerful politician father and a missing purse containing €4m worth of jewels （欧元）nabbed through the window of a Mercedes en route to one of Paris's most luxurious hotels.
The saga, which was tonight enthralling media and political pundits in France and Ukraine, began yesterday when, according to police in Paris, the daughter of Kiev's mayor reported the theft of her purse.
Kristina Chernovetska, 30, who heads a charity home for elderly people funded by the city of Kiev, was reported to have told officers she had been robbed of her purse by an attacker who broke into her chauffeur-driven car while it stopped in traffic on the motorway.
Despite a spirited chase on foot by the vehicle's driver, the reports continued, the thief was not caught. Chernovetska reportedly told police that the purse had contained jewellery, including rings and earrings, worth an estimated €4m.
Today, however, the story of the supposed robbery was rejected as a "bad joke" by Leonid Chernovetsky, the former banking magnate voted in as the mayor of Ukraine's capital in 2006.
Chernovetsky, known for his schmalzy campaigning style and formidable wealth accrued from ownership of one of Ukraine's largest banks, emphasises his daughter's work with the charity as an example of his family's good work.
"We completely deny these reports about a robbery," said his spokeswoman, Marta Hrymska. "There was no robbery." She insisted Chernovetska had been in Ukraine at the time of the reported theft.
Tonight the George V hotel in Paris's wealthy eighth arrondissement – where the cheapest room costs €750 a night – confirmed that a woman by the name of "Christina Chernovetsky" had a room reserved. Calls to the room went unanswered.
The affair's potential for embarrassing Chernovetsky was made clear today as opposition politicians in Kiev reacted gleefully to the allegations that the mayor's altruistic progeny was jetting into Paris laden down with treasures.
"Chernovetsky needs to immediately call up his favourite grandmas and grandpas so that they could sacrifice part of their pensions to buy Kristina back her jewels," said one, Volodymyr Bondarenko, an ally of Ukraine's prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Attempts by Tymoshenko to unseat Chernovetsky in a snap election in 2008 failed. Since then the mayor has grown increasingly unpopular, with Kiev-ites criticising him this winter for his failure to sweep snow and ice off the capital's freezing streets. Voters who took part in this month's presidential elections had to navigate treacherous pavements to get to polling booths.
While sophisticated Kiev-dwellers express contempt for his populist gestures the mayor, who has even released a CD in which he sings along to popular Soviet-era ballads, enjoys some support from the city's elderly and urban poor. |
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